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Meaning inflate meaning

What does inflate mean?
Definitions in simple English

inflate Verb

— When you inflate something, you try to add air into it to make it bigger. We used an air pump to inflate the balloons. Before we entered the swimming pool, Dad helped us to inflate the water float.

inflate

— verb exaggerate or make bigger The charges were inflated — verb fill with gas or air inflate a balloons — verb cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit The war inflated the economy — verb increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value inflate the currency — verb (= balloon) become inflated The sails ballooned

Synonyms inflate synonyms

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inflate English » English

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Topics inflate topics

What do people use inflate to talk about?
States

Big
Universe, creation Sky Air

Blow air
States Big Big area

Big container, volume
States Quality Good

Value
Language and thought Communication Say True

Exaggerate

Conjugation inflate conjugation

How do you conjugate inflate?

inflate · verb

Examples inflate examples

How do I use inflate in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I cannot inflate all these balloons.

Movie subtitles

Inflate, please.
Just before the dive, you inflate it.
Gas in the belly, unfortunately, will not inflate the ego.
I'll inflate it if you help me putting on the plates.
Meteorites don't inflate like a balloon.
Inflate the balloon.
But don't forget to inflate your chest.
And now I feel my breasts to inflate.
Auto-inflate!
Something went wrong with Underdog.. andtheycouldn'tget his head to inflate.
Go inflate your tire.
I knew then that I'd have to take off the air tanks and risk dislodging my helmet in order to inflate the vest or I was certainly going to die.
Rodney manages at last to inflate his vest and reach the surface where a safety diver rushes to his aid.
Inflate the BP cuff to 150.
Be careful you don't over-inflate this in the morning.
Do you think you could help me inflate them?
KIRBY: Inflate.
The old man is heel, he inflate the bill.
People inflate their anxieties.
The problem is the conventions of musical comedy tend to inflate the contents.
Auto-inflate.
Inflate your vests! Lucas!
Inflate the outer skin with maximum ballast.
Inflate ballast shields to the maximum..nine, eight.
I have reason to believe that they are being used in order to inflate occupancy figures.
They also inflate it. - I wanted. to bring it to you sooner, and I fell!
All right, get the spare, change, inflate and hurry.
I got a ball to inflate it using a needle.
I am the wise woman that the put to the world, And now I feel my breasts to inflate.
Something went wrong with Underdog and they couldn't inflate his head.
He's got that great apartment on 77th Street and they overlook where they inflate all those huge balloons for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Inflate your chest.
A couple of concealed panels inside the lining which, when activated, gradually inflate and lock together.
Inflate, er.
I've got a chest drainage to re-inflate his lung. My bag.
There's been no claim for punitive damage, only compensatory. But our fear was the jury could be so outraged, they might artificially. inflate compensatories as a de facto puni, so we opted to bifurcate.
We inflate a raft, white-water three miles down to a meeting point, where a blowout party will take place.
We'll insert a scope into your uterus and then inflate a balloon in the baby's airway which should help stimulate the lungs to grow.

News and current affairs

There is no way around a reduction in relative domestic prices as long as these countries remain in the currency union: either they deflate, or their trading partners inflate faster.
Third, the north can inflate.
So, although the process of deleveraging has barely started, debt reductions will become necessary if countries cannot grow or save or inflate themselves out of their debt problems.
But, for some managers, stock options have created an incentive to inflate profits and hide losses, thereby enriching themselves artificially while jeopardizing their companies and other shareholders.
Moreover, given the magnitude of excess capacity in real estate, lower interest rates will do little to revive real-estate prices, much less inflate another consumption bubble.
Unconventional monetary policies like quantitative easing may inflate a new generation of asset bubbles, but the underlying problem - negative returns to new investment - will not have been solved by the time the next crash comes.
In any case, the new policies should reassure those who feared that China's central government either would simply watch the bubble inflate or that it lacked a sufficiently independent macroeconomic policy to intervene.
Cambodian authorities can help build their credibility by curbing the temptation to pad bills and inflate salaries.
As this capital cascades through the global financial system, it will re-inflate the economy.
We do not want to inflate another asset-price bubble on the scale of the one that burst in 2007-2008.
For example, they try to squeeze as much as possible out of land sales, thereby pushing up housing prices and helping to inflate asset bubbles.
Those who cannot forget the past are condemned to inflate it.
The obvious arithmetical result was to inflate past deficits - including for the year 1999.
There may be a temptation to inflate away debt held by foreigners, but the fact is that the majority of US debt is held by Americans, who would constitute a strong constituency opposing the policy.
Similarly, the euro-collapse scenario in which such countries successfully pressure the ECB to inflate, compelling Germany to abandon the euro, has shown no signs of developing.

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